to California for another assignment. They
had had only two partial days to search the
area where the Negro Boy had been found, an
area we had fruitlessly crisscrossed with tele
vision for more than a month two years before.
The season was drawing to a close. Our
team, made up of students and teachers, had
to return to their classrooms. The wood of the
Roman wreck at Yassi Ada was photographed
for the last time, and then we re-covered it
with the same sand that had preserved it for
so long. Submersible chamber, air lift, tracks,
photo tower, water jet, and telephone booth
were all raised to the surface and carried to
nearby Bodrum for storage.
Twice during this time the wind dropped
for a day, and we made desperate attempts to
inspect the sonar target near Wreck Rock
with the Asherah. Both tries failed.
Another unit arrived-this one in the charge
of sonar expert Martin Klein of Boston, Mas-
sachusetts. He had received his training under
Dr. Harold Edgerton, famed inventor of the
electronic flash lamp for high-speed photog
raphy, who in recent years has turned his at
tention toward sonar devices.
But now I had to return to my own teaching.
I left our chief diver, Claude Duthuit, in
charge and started for home.
Second Sonar Scores a Bull's-eye
Meanwhile the Kardeler headed back to
the sonar target identified by the Scripps
team. Transits were set up to get the trawler
on the same course it had followed when the
target was first spotted. Marty Klein's sonar
fish was put overboard and trailed behind the
Kardevler as she approached the target.
Don Rosencrantz called to Marty, "Watch
that recorder. In a few seconds...."
Then it appeared. Marty shouted: "Look at
that! We've really got something big."